What old books do you still own? The first OD&D box anyone?

[Turanil]

Who in this community has owned the first brown OD&D box? And more importantly, do you still have it? What about other D&D editions of old? Do you still have them, in what condition?

-- I bought the old white D&D boxed set in 1978 or so, when I made my first trip to the US. Unfortunately I sold it two years later to a friend (cause I didn't understand a darn world of it, as my English was really poor at that time). I really regret to have sold this collector.

-- I then later bought the AD&D 1e books, those with the cover by Easley (by the way, what happened to this great artist?). Now these books I still have, but I used them much and they are in mediocre shape. Sometimes I wish my brother would give me his own collection that is as if new! (and it includes the first fiend folio). My brother ceased to play almost 15 years ago.

-- Thereafter I bought all AD&D 2e rulebooks, including the new printings (black covers), and most of them are in perfect condition.

 

[Ranes]

Never had a brown box set. I bought an OCE in the early eighties but gave it away, along with all my old 1e stuff. In the late eighties I went and bought all the 2e books I could lay my hands on. Then I gve those away, too. It's not that I didn't enjoy D&D any more (with the exception of the Player's Option books). It's just that they were so much luggage. For years, I liked knowing that I could carry everything I needed (and I don't just mean to a game).

Recently, I've caved in to a little nostalgia and picked up a few items from eBay and car boot sales. I'm not going to turn into a rabid collector but I've decided it would be nice to re-acquire some of the stuff I used to have. It started a couple of years ago, when a friend turned up with a box of old D&D stuff he didn't want any more but thought I might like. It turned out there was a first printing of the PHB in there. Actually, it turned out to by my old first printing of the PHB that I hadn't seen in something like twenty years. There was a DMG, a Dungeoneer's Survival Guide, Book of Lairs, first edition Forgotten Realms box set, Dragonlance Adventures (ugh), a swathe of modules and no MM. Since then, I've acquired a near mint Holmes Basic Set (containing a mono B1 in excellent condition - woohoo), second edition PHB and DMG (and still no MM) and a few more modules. So, all I need now are about a dozen more modules, two MMs and a complete OD&D and supplement set and I'm done (again). I can live without the complete print runs of Dragon, White Dwarf et al.

 

[specks]

I still have the Deities and Demigods book with both Elric, Cthulhu and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. I understand it's quite a collectors item.

 

[Ranes]

Ah yes, if it's in good condition. They show up on eBay at least once a month.* I will get around to nabbing one, in due course.

* http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5219749521&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

 

[DragonLancer]

Not sure which edition it was but packed away at my folks I have Basic D&D (Red box through to Immortals), and I still have all my 1st ed AD&D books though I have recently lost my 1st ed Manual of the Planes .

 

[IronWolf]

I have the three booklets Men & Magic, Monsters & Treasure, Underworld & Wilderness Adventures but not in their box. They have the light brown covers. I wasn't playing back then, I had a cousin that gave them to me. I also have a fair number of 1st edition books and portions of the Basic (a couple of versions) and Expert sets. I still have my 2nd edition books also.

 

[Psion]

I didn't get into D&D till 80 or so (as if that weren't a while ago...). A have an old expert set book, a bunch of BECM modules, and most of the 1e and 2e stuff I owned. Considering how much gaming stuff I lost over the years, I am surprised how much 1e stuff I still have. I am missing (and miss) my 1e Survival guides (I actually thought the dungeoneers survival guide had a pretty cool take on an underdark setting) and the I3-5 modules (stolen during a con ).

 

[Akrasia]

I still own:

~ The original D&D box set (though the 'white box' version published around 1977, not the original 'brown box' version).
~ The Moldvay Basic Set and Cook Expert Set. (I owned the Holmes Basic Set a long time ago -- it was my first D&D product, bought for me by my parents on my 9th birthday -- but lost it over 20 years ago.)
~ Original versions of 1e AD&D hardcovers (the Trampier cover PHB, the Sutherland cover DMG & MM).
~ Lots of original Basic, Expert, and AD&D modules (in wildly varying conditions).
~ Greyhawk Campaign setting 'portfolio' and original box set.
~ A number of old Dragon and White Dwarf magazines.

Other old stuff I still own:

~ Runequest rules (2nd edition).
~ Dragonquest rules (2nd edition -- the single book version published by SPI).
~ MERP rules (1st edition -- 2 copies -- and 2nd edition).
~ Tonnes of MERP modules.
~ Rolemaster 'Character Law' (1st edition).
~ Star Frontiers box set and modules.
~ Space Opera box set and modules.
~ Chaosium's "Hawkmoon" game.

I lost a bunch of stuff 15-20 years ago (including all my Traveller books). But I still have some old stuff around (or stored at my parents' home).

 

[sword-dancer]

The oldest book would be manual of the planes Ied, but I own the translation of theD&D Companion and the Alphatia-Thyatis Box.

 

[grodog]

I sold my OD&D White Box Collector's edition, along with my old issues of The Dragon (oldest was #7), The Strategic Review (I had all but #5), and all of my OD&D supplements back in the early 90s when I didn't think I'd ever play D&D again (this was sometime after they'd definitively killed GH with shoddy books and after I'd discovered Ars Magica). (I also got rid of all of my Magic cards at the time). Since 3e pulled me back to D&D, I've been rebuilding the earliest stuff, though I never got rid of my 1e stuff (kept the hardbacks, modules, etc. for the most part).

My oldest TSR book at the moment is a copy of the 1974 Warriors of Mars (for the curious, see http://rdushay.home.mindspring.com/Museum/SF/Mars.html[/url]).

edit: If anyone's got old OD&D stuff, early TSR stuff in general (Divine Right, Star Probe, etc.), and/or cool non-TSR stuff (Midkemia Press, etc.), and is interested in trading, I'd be happy to discuss by email